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Represents an effort to view China's rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan to international prominence - the emergence of a capitalist political economy. This book draws out what capitalism in the dragon's lair implies for our 21st century world.

Presents the Singapore economy through a macroeconometric model. Using modelling techniques, this book offers insights into how the Singapore economy works. It presents an introduction to the Singapore economy and is useful for econometric modellers and policy makers in Singapore as well as undergraduates and graduate researchers.

Explores the transformation in the availability and use of credit among the less prosperous strata of Southeast Asian societies. This book deals with the microfinance sector and looks at informal moneylending, rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), cooperatives, pawnshops, shopkeeper credit, and advance crop payments.

Offering a comprehensive account of the role of trade unions in Asia, this book covers the important Asian economies. It focuses on how trade unions have organized to represent workers and the strategies they have adopted. It also discusses issues surrounding wages and working conditions, health and safety, and women's employment opportunities.

This volume showcases the latest research by a team of international scholars into the economic development of the Asia Pacific region.

Studies industries and firms in East Asia and examines the major determinants of their economic performance. With contributions from such leading thinkers as Ha-Joon Chang and Rajah Rasiah, the book covers themes ranging from industrial policy and East Asia to the role of the government in technological capability building.

The contributors to this book examine the need for an exchange rate regime in Asia following the 1997 to 1998 Asian currency crisis and discuss whether a currency basket system is the answer.

A study of industries and firms in East Asia which examines economic performance through such themes as industrial policy, Taiwan's information technology industry and the role of the government in technological capability building.

Exploring the similarities and interdependencies between two important and idiosyncratic factor markets in Japan, this book brings data to hand which until now has only been available in specialist journals.

The contributors look at the growing sophistication of capital markets in East Asia and discuss the possible economic and political consequences.

In an era of dramatic transformation, this book examines the role of the private sector in China's economic growth, controversially suggesting that it has been driving the reform.

This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis. With chapters by well-established international Asian economics experts, this book constitutes a finely judged example of the varying opinions.

Looking at women in the Asian labour market, this book produces some surprising results and dispels some common myths regarding the position of female workers in the region.

This study examines issues of trade and policy in developing Asian economies such as Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

Including many papers from scholars based in Japan and China, this collection supplies insights into aspects of East Asian economic development which should be of interest to scholars in a variety of related fields.

This collection translates key speeches and articles from the debates surrounding Indonesian economic development, previously rarely available in English.

This study sets out to provide a systematic rethinking of the relationship between import-substituting and export-oriented industrialization strategies.

A comprehensive overview of the the Japanese foreign exchange market, this text provides a comparative economic analysis of practices and risks as well as related policy issues.

This text examines the process of trade policy making in Japan and takes the US/Japan trade talks of the mid 1980s as a focal case study. Four key areas are covered: pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; electronics; and forestry products.

The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development has been hotly debated throughout cycles of boom and bust. This text critically examines some of the key features attributed to Chinese business: business-government relations, the family firm, trust and networks, and supposed "Asian" values.

There is a deepening debate in East Asia about the prospects for common exchange rate arrangements, even including the formation of a common currency in the longer term. This raises a complex set of issues and this volume provides a detailed yet comprehensive examination of key issues in the debate.

This book focuses on the role played by state- sponsored innovation in economic development and national development strategies.